St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-26
A FAT COUPLE.
The President Still Growing Cor
pulent and His Wife Following
Suit.

The President Still Growing Cor
pulent and His Wife Following
Suit.
Especially the ladies who have called
at the White house during the past
week have remarked the growing cor
pulency of the president and Mrs.
Cleveland. They say that each have
fattened to the extent of at least twenty
five pounds since the 1St of September,
and the president has become really
stout, says Washington letter in the
Indianapolis journal.
When Mrs. Cleveland was married
she weighed little less than $50 pounds,
and, owing to her height, did not APP
pear to be that heavy. There are those
of her friends who have seen her during
the past week who say she will tilt the
beam at 10; but these figures are a lit
tie high. She will not weigh 160, yet
| she is very near that mark. The out
door exercise, especially the daily
drives she takes, has done most of it..
Mrs. Cleveland seldom drinks wine or
other stimulant. She only wants a brisk
walk to work up her appetite for
breakfast or lunch, and if she cannot 60
out doors she rambleS about the house.
A servant says she often runs up and
down stairs two steps at time, and
can swing her arms behind her back
like those of windmill, and that she is
the most agile woman of her size in the
city. Mrs. Cleveland is fully as tall as
her usband and. although she has devel-
Oped into woman of serious thought,
she can enjoy frOlic as much as any,
body, and when she attends the theater,
which is often, she has no ScrupleS
about laughing heartily when she is
amused or sees anything to laugh at.
She is of naturally happy disposition
and eats and sleeps like one who is de-
termined to let nothing in life worry
her.
The president grows corpulent from
natural causes. He would get fat On
bread and water, yet he does not live OH
such transparent diet. He can eat as
large breakfast as railsplitter, drink
his three cups of coffee for breakfast,
with pancakes and rolls and syrup and
the etceteras which make up a good
breakfast. He does not take half as
much exercise as Mrs. Cleveland, and
entirely different character. He never
hurrieS. He walks slowly and with de-
liberation. Sometimes he takes
two moves to each step in
going up stairs. When he and his
wife return from drive she invariably
helps herself from the carriage and runs
ahead into the house. If it is out at
Red-Top she bitches the horse, provided
they are in a One-horSe vehicle, and
then she beats him into the house. Ii it
is at the White house she goes up stairs
on the run, probably two steps at leap,
and the exercise she gets is healthful,
while that he has is not very effective.
A good many stories have been printed
about the presidents diet. Most of
them have grains of truth, but most of
them have been eXaggeratiOns. He is
not gormandiZer, but healthy eater.
He is big man, possessed of splendid
digestive organs, ard he satisfies his de-
sireS as far as he can without gormand-
lZing. His complexion at this time, the
brightness of his eye and his growth,
how that his liver, blood and stomach
are in good order, which could not be if
he overloaded his stomach every day.
The president likes bottle of ale or
sniff of something stronger with his
lunch or dinner, and is especially fond
Of bottle of beer before retiring at
night. He says they assist digestion
and produce ease of the nerves. In any
event, the president and Mrs. Cleveland
are growing so stout that it can be OBJ
served even as they drive through the
streets, and they appear to be about as
happy as clans at high tide.